Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

The two-day holiday flew by, and the children have to go back to their tribal school.

At the clan school, Zhang Heshan and his three friends have returned to class, but the students are no longer interested in their ghost encounters. What they are now focused on is what happened at the Zhang family market a few days ago.

As the first discoverer, Zhang Shengchun was immediately surrounded by the students of the ethnic school as soon as get out of class ended.

"Shengchun, how did you find out that the puppy was a child from the tribe?"

"I heard that you noticed something was wrong with that puppy right away, Shengchun. You truly are worthy of the name Shengchun!"

"The elders say that the vendor is an expert. He has used this method of creating animals to abduct many children without ever being discovered. Shengchun, can you tell me how you discovered that something was wrong?"

Faced with the expectant gazes of his fellow clansmen, Zhang Shengchun was at a loss for words. He said he knew nothing and that the dog skin had simply slid off the child by itself. Would anyone believe him?

Zhang Shengchun told the truth, but the Zhang family boys did not believe him.

“Shengchun, don’t be modest. That thief dared to mix children with the animals he was selling. Wasn’t he afraid of being discovered? And the animal magic even failed on its own. That thief couldn’t possibly make such a basic mistake.”

Zhang Shengchun shrugged. To be honest, nobody believed him anymore.

“I’m serious. If you don’t believe me, ask Zhang Shenglin and Zhang Xingze. They were there at the time.”

The boys turned their attention to Zhang Shenglin and Zhang Xingze, who were sitting at the back: "Zhang Xingze, is what Shengchun said true?"

Su Xingze looked completely innocent: "I think that's how it is."

Zhang Shengchun: "What do you mean by 'seems like'? It means exactly like this!"

He truly had no idea how the animal creation spell had failed!

The other boys ignored his explanation and began to speculate about how the thief had kidnapped the children of their tribe.

The boys knew from a young age that their Zhang family bloodline was different from that of outsiders, and that many people outside the Zhang family coveted the special nature of the Zhang family bloodline.

The Zhang family's rule of endogamy was twofold: firstly, to prevent the dilution of the bloodline, and secondly, to prevent outsiders from coveting the Zhang family's bloodline and stealing it.

The boys had heard in their childhood that someone had plotted to capture a member of the Zhang family in order to obtain the Zhang family bloodline, imprisoned him, and intended to have his blood exchanged. He cruelly bled the Zhang family member to death, and he himself died in the blood exchange method.

Regardless of whether the story was told by adults to scare them, the idea that outsiders would stop at nothing to obtain the Zhang family bloodline has been deeply ingrained in their minds since childhood.

No matter how much they guessed, the boys would never know the reason. They were too young, not even old enough to be allowed to roam freely, and the clan's investigation results would never be known to them.

All the teenagers knew was that after that big market, the clan conducted several self-inspections, and the Zhang family's main residence was sealed off for more than a month, making it very difficult for even members of the maternal family to enter or leave the main residence.

More than a month later, the kidnapping incident subsided. It seemed as if there were fewer people in the Zhang family, or perhaps none at all. The children who were still attending the clan school could only vaguely sense that the atmosphere within the family was more oppressive than before.

Meanwhile, the blockade inside and outside the Zhang family compound was finally lifted, but the teenagers who were still attending the clan school were still not allowed to leave the Zhang family compound.

Whether or not he could leave his clan's territory was meaningless to Zhang Shenglin. His social circle was very small. Every day he went to the clan school to study and train, and when he came back in the evening he would cook and feed the chickens. After that, he would study courses in the system learning space.

His daily routine repeated itself, and that's how his day went by.

After a month of hard work, Zhang Shenglin's cooking skills finally improved, reaching the level of basic culinary skills. His math and physics skills also improved rapidly, reaching the level of mastery.

Su Xingze took a look and found that the knowledge mastered in the proficiency stage should correspond to the university level.

Within the learning system, each course is divided into several stages: beginner, intermediate, master, advanced, specialist, expert, master, and grandmaster.

Once a selected course is mastered, the child can continue learning without occupying a course slot, and the vacant slot can be used to switch to a new course, meaning the child can now start learning a new course.

Su Xingze wanted to choose two subjects from Chemistry, History, Geography and Biology for his child as planned, but the child was unwilling. After some discussion between the two.

The main thing was that the child was looking at him with clear black and white eyes, and although he didn't say anything, Su Xingze couldn't help but wonder if he had gone too far.

However, these basic subjects are also very beneficial for children. Being biased towards certain subjects is not good for their physical and mental health. The content that the child is learning at home is already very niche, and many of them are not things that normal people would learn.

At the very least, children should complete twelve years of compulsory education. No matter what, one cannot be illiterate; this is Su Xingze's bottom line.

In the end, the two compromised. Su Xingze chose chemistry, while the child chose swordsmanship.

Given the child's passion for knife skills, Su Xingze suspected that the child wouldn't give up until the final stage of the course.

Several more months passed, and an interesting course was introduced at the clan school—the art of disguise.

Su Xingze was very interested in the art of disguise. He could completely transform into another person, but he used magic to do so. Disguise was different; it only required masks made from strange materials to transform into another person.

These ancient skills, which have gradually been lost to history, had long become legends in his time.

From the moment he started learning this course, he attended every single class without missing a single one. He has a strong learning ability and is now one of the few people in the clan school who can make a complete, flawless human skin mask.

As the year drew to a close, Su Xingze noticed that there were more people in the Zhang family's village. Usually, he rarely saw children older than the teenagers in the Zhang family's school; most of them were adults.

Walking through the Zhang family's territory now, you'll occasionally encounter several teenagers who are not quite grown up.

According to the children, these teenagers were members of the Zhang family who had gone out to roam freely, while others had already completed their roaming but still spent their time outside the clan.

The return of the free-range boys also foreshadows another thing: the clan school will be on holiday.

It's not just a two-day monthly holiday, but a yearly holiday starting now and continuing until the Lantern Festival.

Of course, before the clan school holiday, these teenagers had to undergo an assessment.

"This assessment sounds like a lot of fun!"

Su Xingze's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected the clan association to come up with such an interesting assessment.

This assessment will not only involve the boys from the clan school, but also the boys who have just returned from being released into the wild, as well as the Zhang family boys who have completed their release but are not yet 18 years old.

The tribe will give each person a set of materials for making human skin masks, and then draw lots with the tribe school teacher.

In the lottery box, besides wooden slips with other people's names written on them, there were also many blank slips.

Drawing a slip with a name on it means you must disguise yourself as that person. A blank slip means you don't need to disguise yourself and can participate in the assessment as yourself; it's a distraction in the assessment.

On the day of the assessment, all the young men in the clan can only appear according to the identity drawn from the lot.

If a boy's identity is recognized during the assessment, he will fail the assessment and be punished. However, the boy who successfully exposes the identity of another will receive a reward from the clan.

"Let's begin the drawing of lots." One of the teachers at the clan school, a young man who looked only in his twenties but was actually over a hundred years old, stood in front of the boys.

On the table in front of Teacher Zhang was a wooden table with a wooden lottery box on it. The boys lined up and took turns drawing lots.

The boy in front had no expression, so it was impossible to tell whether the role he drew was difficult or easy. The boy behind him kept praying that he wouldn't draw a role that was too difficult to play.

For example, Su Xingze.

In just a few months, Su Xingze had become completely familiar with the Zhang family's territory. When he went out, every member of the Zhang family could call him by name.

His appearance is so distinctive that even strangers would recognize him at a glance, with his signature white hair and green eyes.

The assessment required completely impersonating the person drawn from the list. Unlike others who only needed to change their hairstyle, height, weight, and voice, impersonating Su Xingze required not only preparing a long white wig and changing his eye color to green, but also painting his entire body white. Even then, there was still a risk of being exposed.

The boys immediately put away their lots after drawing them, none of them wanting anyone to see what was on their slips.

There are five days to prepare between the draw and the start of the assessment. Three days later, the first Zhang family 'Human Skin Mask' Craft Competition will officially begin.